I have just started using Atom for Linux development. I installed the build-make package to be able to build my GNU Makefile project from within Atom. The atom-build package documentation lists a number of keys to use but none of them has any effect what so ever. If I press ctrl-alt-B nothing happens. F9 doesn’t work either, nothing happens. What more do I need to do besides installing build-make to get this to work?

You might want to take a look at the build-tools package. In contrast to the other gcc related build packages, build-tools lets you work with multiple make files rather than just a Makefile and easily supports different build commands.

I removed the build-make package and installed build-tools and build-tools-make but I still do not know how to get them working. Do I need to create a .build-tools.cson file and add configuration to it or is it enough to just install build-tools-make on top of build-tools? How is the parsing of makefiles triggered?